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Now, it’s American manufacturers who appear to be making poor quality meds, in filthy, grimy plants, and shipping them to the rest of the world. — MB

I’ve been railing against Tylenol for a long time, now.

I do not trust this drug.

Each year, tens of thousands of overdoses of acetaminophen, Tylenol’s active ingredient, fill US emergency rooms and hospital beds, and jam the phone lines at poison control centers. And it is the cause of hundreds of cases of acute liver failure in the US each year.

Now, Johnson & Johnson, which makes Tylenol, finds itself plagued by a quality control problem:

“Raw materials used to make over-the-counter infant’s and children’s medications, which are subject to a massive recall, tested positive for bacterial contamination, according to a Food and Drug Administration inspection report released late Tuesday.”

via FDA finds bacterial contamination in children’s medicine ingredients – latimes.com.